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Agreed, to make it even more interesting Browser Company discontinued Arc earlier this year. So not only did they do all of the things OP listed, but also didn'
by colelyman 1y ago
Agreed, to make it even more interesting Browser Company discontinued Arc earlier this year. So not only did they do all of the things OP listed, but also didn't have a current product when acquired.
- ar_lan 1y agoThey have "Dia" - which is Chrome + AI chat? https://www.diabrowser.com/ https://www.diabrowser.com/
- dbbk 1y agoChrome + AI chat is... Chrome + Gemini though
- ActionHank 1y agoShhh... don't tell Atlassian.
- loloquwowndueo 1y agoLest they attempt to buy Google instead.
- ActionHank 1y agoI think I would be ok with that, they can both be a mid, bureaucratic, mess together.
- jrflowers 1y agoWhen I saw that domain my first thought was it looks like they came up with the name by combining “diabetes” with “browser”
- emoII 1y agoWhere can I read about this? It still gets regular updates and is front and center on the browser company website
- sphars 1y agoThis was their blog post back in May https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-2025 https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-...
- swores 1y agoIronic that I wasn't familiar with this company or their products before today, and having read about both Arc and Dia, including reading this blog post you've linked, the product that makes me want to try it is the one they've stopped developing...
- deinonychus 1y agoIt's still worth trying and using. The developers consider it a "finished product" and I don't disagree. It does lots of small things well* that many browsers (even the self-confessed clones like Zen) don't do out of the box, if at all. Maybe in two years the browser will no longer be distributed or receive Chromium updates, but it exists and works fine now. * For example, I get a lot of value from renaming my tabs and even replacing their favicons with emojis of my choice. Zen appears to have limited support for this.
- swores 1y agoThanks, I will do
- nofriend 1y agoIt was popular but had no real route to profitability. Hence the acquisition.
- hashbig 1y ago
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- MarcelOlsz 1y agoMy experience with Arc was installing it, asking myself "I have to pay to change the app icon? wtf" and uninstalling it. Horrendous UI as well.
- chachra 1y agosame
- odo1242 1y agoPersonally I liked the UI (and now use Zen browser, the UI is very much a matter of taste though), but left as the browser itself kept getting worse
- MarcelOlsz 1y agoThat's very interesting. I downloaded arc because I saw it in some twitter screenshot and I thought the UI was neat, when I could have actually been looking for Zed instead of Arc.
- mikodin 1y agoMy hunch is a loyal user base. Anecdotally, everyone I put onto Arc and the person who put me on still uses it. I’ve been using Arc for the last two years and was genuinely sad on its discontinuation. I now don’t really know what I’ll do when it goes away.
- odo1242 1y agoZen browser now has all the features of Arc (including folders, which they just added) if you’re willing to use a Firefox fork